Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambdabot-4.2.3.3

2012-07-18 Thread James Cook
I should probably be more clear - it supports all the same resource limiting mechanisms as Mueval because it uses Mueval (modified to support Safe Haskell). On Jul 18, 2012, at 11:37 AM, James Cook wrote: > The irc server it runs on has about 10 users, all of whom I know and trust, > so I have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambdabot-4.2.3.3

2012-07-18 Thread James Cook
The irc server it runs on has about 10 users, all of whom I know and trust, so I have not tested it extensively but it should be as safe as anything else running Safe Haskell. Mueval uses the ghc API and with a minor modification can do so in "safe" mode. As long as you don't trust any packages

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambdabot-4.2.3.3

2012-07-18 Thread Francesco Mazzoli
At Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:04:17 -0400, Cale Gibbard wrote: > Lambdabot doesn't have a maintainer. So is it just orphaned and anyone can upload? That does not sound right, also considering that lambdabot is used on the IRC channel, it'd be nice to have a more structured way to push fixes and improveme

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambdabot-4.2.3.3

2012-07-18 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM, James Cook wrote: > It diverged from the official version quite a while ago, but it builds on > the latest GHC and uses Safe Haskell for the @eval module. That doesn't sound very safe. How does it handle all the DoS attacks etc in the mueval test suite? -- gw

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambdabot-4.2.3.3

2012-07-18 Thread James Cook
For what it's worth, I've been maintaining a fork for personal use for quite a while[1]. It diverged from the official version quite a while ago, but it builds on the latest GHC and uses Safe Haskell for the @eval module. If someone happens to want to use it they are free to do so, and I'll ev

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambdabot-4.2.3.3

2012-07-18 Thread Cale Gibbard
Lambdabot doesn't have a maintainer. On 18 July 2012 08:33, Francesco Mazzoli wrote: > At Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:14:47 +0400, > Dmitry Malikov wrote: >> A few days ago I tried to install lambdabot package from hackage >> (4.2.3.2). Cabal install failed. >> >> Then I found DanBurton's github repo wit

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambdabot-4.2.3.3

2012-07-18 Thread Dmitry Malikov
On 07/18/2012 04:33 PM, Francesco Mazzoli wrote: At Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:14:47 +0400, Dmitry Malikov wrote: A few days ago I tried to install lambdabot package from hackage (4.2.3.2). Cabal install failed. Then I found DanBurton's github repo with some approaches to make lambdabot install fixed.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambdabot-4.2.3.3

2012-07-18 Thread Francesco Mazzoli
At Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:14:47 +0400, Dmitry Malikov wrote: > A few days ago I tried to install lambdabot package from hackage > (4.2.3.2). Cabal install failed. > > Then I found DanBurton's github repo with some approaches to make lambdabot > install fixed. > > All dependency packages (IOSpec, num

[Haskell-cafe] lambdabot-4.2.3.3

2012-07-18 Thread Dmitry Malikov
Hi. A few days ago I tried to install lambdabot package from hackage (4.2.3.2). Cabal install failed . Then I found DanBurton's github repo with some approach